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digitalscorpyun.bsky.social
The Monroe Doctrine didn’t end empire—it rebranded it.
Smedley Butler said the quiet part out loud: U.S. interventions weren’t defense, they were rackets for capital.
Empire didn’t vanish. It changed management.
#MonroeDoctrine #ImperialHistory
January 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
ghilondon.bsky.social
#BritishEmpire #imperialhistory #globalhistory #postcolonial #colonial #londonhistory #urbanhistory #skystorians #historysky
4/5
January 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
ghilondon.bsky.social
Start reading: perspectivia.net/rec...

#economichistory #tradehistory #globaltrade #colonialhistory #imperialhistory #ethics #economicconscience
2/2
October 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
johnokeefe.bsky.social
De Gaulle
Julian Jackson
newbooksnetwork.com/julian-jacks... #charlesdegaulle -- interesting as I have also been reading the bio of Frantz Fanon as well which makes for some interesting comparisons. #frenchhistory #imperialhistory #wwii
Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
ghilondon.bsky.social
#ThyssenLecture #colonialhistory #postcolonial #imperialhistory #globalhistory #historyofscience #fritzthyssenstiftung #envhist #environmentalhistory
#climatecrisis

📷Credits: ©2011CIAT/NeilPalmer, “India burning 69” by Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, CC BY-SA 2.0 [cropped].
4/4
September 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
kateom.bsky.social
📻 📢 #Listenback to ep. 2, series 2 of #IrishImperialLives
We venture to #ImperialRussia with Dr Angela Byrne @angela-historian.bsky.social
#Listennow wherever you get your #podcasts
#irishhistory #worldhistory #russianhistory #empire #historypodcast #historylovers #imperialhistory #womenshistory
August 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
kateom.bsky.social
📻 📢 #Listenback to episode 2, series 2 of #IrishImperialLives.
We venture to #ImperialRussia with @angela-historian.bsky.social
#Listennow wherever you get your #podcasts
#irishhistory #worldhistory #russianhistory #empire #historypodcast #historylovers #imperialhistory #soldier #peterthegreat
August 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
kateom.bsky.social
#Listenback to episode 2, series 2 of #IrishImperialLives. We venture to #ImperialRussia with Dr Angela Byrne @angela-historian.bsky.social
#Listennow wherever you get your #podcasts #irishhistory #russianhistory #empire #historypodcast #imperialhistory #soldier #historybuff #irishheritage #ireland
August 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
kateom.bsky.social
Thanks to our wonderful guest @medievalgill.bsky.social who joined us on #IrishImperialLives to talk about #graceomalley
#Listenback wherever you get your podcasts. Link in bio.
#irishhistory #womenshistory #gaelicireland #imperialhistory #colonialism #pirates #historypodcast
August 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
higherjobz.bsky.social
Departmental Lecturer – University of Oxford, UK
Fixed-term in Global & Imperial History
Eligibility: PhD (or near completion) in a relevant field
Deadline: 5 September 2025
Details: higherjobz.com/lecturer-glo...
#AcademicJobs #GlobalHistory #UKJobs #PostdocJobs #LecturerRole #ImperialHistory
Lecturer in Global History – University of Oxford | HigherJobz
Apply for a Lecturer role in Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford. 4-year fixed post. Deadline: 5 Sept 2025. Open to PhDs
higherjobz.com
July 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
mischab.bsky.social
Queen Victoria: Mother of Empire, Shadow of Chains

Prompt in ALT

#aiart #blueskyart #digitalart #aicommunity #collageart #queenvictoria #britishempireart #cutandpasteaesthetic #symbolicportrait #recycledmedia #conceptualcollage #foundmediaart #colonialcritique #imperialhistory #monarchscrutiny
a somber, formal portrait of Queen Victoria made from torn colonial maps, East India Company ledgers, Victorian mourning brooches, industrial revolution smog engravings, and hand-colored royal portraits, her veil formed from lace and faded war dispatches, expression composed and remote, background layered with images of global conquest, famine, railways, and indigenous resistance, visual tension between maternal symbolism and imperial exploitation, conceptual collage in grayscale with muted earth tones
July 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
timesca.com
Our @stephenmbland.bsky.social comments on newly discovered letter from Arthur Conolly which reveals fresh insights into the Great Game's imperial intrigue timesca.com/rediscovered... #GreatGame #ImperialHistory #HistoricalLetters #CaptainConolly #19thCenturyHistory #ColonialIntrigue #CentralAsia
Rediscovered Correspondence from the Man Behind the “Great Game” - The Times Of Central Asia
A recently uncovered letter written by Captain Arthur Conolly, the British officer who coined the term "Great Game," has captivated historians and scholars of
timesca.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
roperlou.bsky.social
#ICYMI #imperialhistory
evansmithhist.bsky.social Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · May 19
Just reposting this. Please get in touch!
jich.bsky.social The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · Oct 20
Dr Evan Smith @evansmithhist.bsky.social has recently taken up the role as book reviews editor. If you are interested in reviewing a recently published book on British colonial and imperial history (broadly defined), please contact him at evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au.
May 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
eui-history.bsky.social
Whose planetary consciousness?

On 12 May at 16.00 CEST, join the Toynbee Prize Foundation Lecture by Sunil Amrith on the imperial origins of the concept of planetary consciousness 👉 loom.ly/_UlqkAA

📣 #ImperialHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #skystorians
May 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
ghilondon.bsky.social
Click here for more information on the lecture series and to register to attend the lecture at the GHIL:

www.ghil.ac.uk/event....

#skystorians #imperialhistory #globalhistory #africanhistory
3/3
April 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
worldhistory.org
They marched towards New Orleans, armed with farming tools and muskets, but were brutally suppressed by militia forces. Explore the full article by Joshua J. Mark here: whe.to/ci/1-24233-en/ #RevolutionaryHistory #AntiSlavery #Louisiana #History #ImperialHistory #USHistory #HistoryOfSlavery
March 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
jeniegao.bsky.social
#PrintPromptMonday #WIP

#InProgress shots of Cycle | Breaking and Making. From my Negotiation Table series.

I carved woodcuts of the mythological Fènghuáng and Pigeon and embedded them in a Chippendale table to resemble inlaid jade.

#colonialism #chinoiserie #dei #imperialhistory 💜🖼️ #printsky
Photo of artist Jenie Gao hand carving a large-scale woodblock of a homing pigeon. Jenie is wearing a dark grey beret and grey clothing, sitting in an art studio in front of their artwork, a yellow poster based on the Guerrilla Girls artwork that reads, "Do women have to be white to get into the Met. Museum? In 1989, the Guerrilla Girls famously stated that less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art Sections were women. In 2021, women of color account for less than half of one percent of artists in US museum collections, one tenth of white women's representation 32 years ago." Jenie Gao wearing an inky white lab coat holding a large printing roller, inking up a half-elliptical woodblock in a fountain roll of jade green and vermilion red. Jenie Gao holding up an edition of their print on cotton muslin canvas, Pigeon, from The Negotiation Table: Cycle | Breaking and Making. The image is of a homing pigeon flying upwards against a background of flame like shapes. The artwork is designed to resemble a piece of hand-carved jade. The tabletop in progress. Jenie's two large-scale woodblocks are of Fènghuáng (mythological Chinese bird) and the homing pigeon fly in an eternal circular chase. The blocks, printed in gradients of light jade green and vermilion red, are embedded in the surface of a reclaimed Chippendale style table. Chippendale is attributed to a British furniture designer and British / American colonial aesthetic. However, this furniture was culturally appropriated from Ming Dynasty Chinese furniture. Europeans coveted Eastern goods so greatly that they funded shipping expeditions in search of a shorter route to Asia. In other words, the western expansion project and colonization of Turtle Island or what people today know as North America, is inextricable from Europeans' desire to possess and subdue Asia, a struggle that continues to shape politics and conquest to this day.
March 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
eui-history.bsky.social
Lost in space

On 3 March at 16.00 CET, join the lecture by Andrew Fitzmaurice @qmul.ac.uk on the #EarlyModern imperial logic still framing current discussions on the Outer Space 👉 loom.ly/P1Pgj04

📣 #SpaceHistory #LegalHistory #ImperialHistory
February 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
ghilondon.bsky.social
#skystorians #BritishEmpire #imperialhistory #capitalism #econonomichistory #econhist#envhist #environmentalhistory
5/5
February 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
worldcrusader.bsky.social
#History #HistoryFacts #JapaneseHistory #Japan #ImperialHistory #19thCentury #AsianHistory
January 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
empiressdu.bsky.social
#ancienthistory #romanempire #imperialhistory #climatehistory #dff #sduclimatecluster #empiressdu #sdu #sdudk #odense
November 26, 2024 at 4:01 PM
kateom.bsky.social
After many many years over there, I'm here 👋. Help! I'm too old and lazy to find my followers 🙏 #history #Ireland #India #empire #decolonisation #Imperialhistory #histlc #publichistory #doggos #badminton #athletics 😊
November 16, 2024 at 11:34 AM
garethknapman.bsky.social
#colonialhistory #imperialhistory #postcolonial #decolonise
November 9, 2024 at 2:49 AM
threeswrite.bsky.social
“The British empire still sends governments mad,” opines Simon Jenkins on the subject of the Chagos Islands, Falklands, other overseas territories, and how British “Delusions of grandeur never cease.”

#history #imperialhistory #britishempire
Britain needs to abandon its delusions of empire – giving up the Chagos Islands is a good start | Simon Jenkins
Labour says it is committed to other ‘overseas territories’, but why? These colonial-era dreams are costing the country dear, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2024 at 8:16 AM
threeswrite.bsky.social
Been enjoying an indulgent day of book-buying.

#classicliterature #history #africanhistory #blackhistory #imperialhistory
October 6, 2024 at 3:01 PM